From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.rrsoftware.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 02:23:43 -0500 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:23:44 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="rrsoftware.com:24.196.82.226"; logging-data="11262"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.7246 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62504 List-Id: "Luke A. Guest" wrote in message news:sf9i9b$1rft$1@gioia.aioe.org... > > Does anyone have electronic copies? They're not in the zips available. Unfortunately, they don't exist. The original source was for a photo-typesetter that hasn't existed for decades (and mostly likely is only stored on 8" floppies that probably aren't readable even if the right hardware was available). The only way for them to exist is for someone to scan a printed version. I have a single printed version in our archives (with installation instructions for 8" floppies dated March 5, 1984). Its got someone's hardwritten notes in it (it's not pristine). Anyway, since it is the only known version, I won't let it out of the office, since it is literally irreplaceable. I've offered to others to scan it to PDFs (one per page, that's all I can figure out how to do on our cheap multifunction machine here) if someone would want to convert that to something more usable. But since I'd have to scan each page individually and the document is an inch thick give or take a few millimeters, I'd need some compensation for the time. (I have lots of things I could be doing that are either fun, make money, or advance Ada -- this is none of these!) Contact me privately if you want to discuss this further. BTW, since RRS still exists and never made a public version for any version of Janus/Ada (including the CP/M versions) -- because all of the versions are derived from the same original source and it is likely that some of the compiler still survives from those versions) -- using it without a license is technically infringing. I don't think there is much chance that anyone would try to stop non-commercial use, but I would suggest getting legal if anything commercial is involved. (And yes, we periodically get requests for help with it from users that I would have expected to have moved on long ago.) Randy Brukardt, founder, R.R. Software, Inc.